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Egypt - Description and travel - Early works to 1800
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A journal from Grand Cairo to Mount Sinai and back again. Translated from a manuscript, written by the Prefetto of Egypt in company with the missionaries de propaganda fide at Grand Cairo. To which are added some remarks on the origin of heiroglyphics and the mythology of the ancient heathens. By the Right Reverend Robert, Lord Bishop of Clogher. Dedicated to The Society of Antiquaries, London.
Clayton, Robert, 1695-1758.Date: MDCCLIII. [1753]- Books
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Travels in upper and lower Egypt: undertaken by order of the old government of France; by C. S. Sonnini, engineer in the French navy, and member of several scientific and literary societies. Illustrated with forty engravings; consisting of portraits, views, plans, a geographical chart, antiquities, plants, animals, &c. Drawn on the spot, under the author's inspection. Translated from the French, by Henry Hunter, D.D. In three volumes. ...
Sonnini, C. S. (Charles Sigisbert), 1751-1812.Date: [1799]- Books
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Travels through Syria and Egypt, in the years 1783, 1784, and 1785. Containing the present natural and political state of those countries, their productions, Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce; with Observations on the Manners, Customs, and Government of the Turks and Arabs. By M. C-F. Volney. Translated from the French. In two volumes. ...
Volney, C.-F. (Constantin-François), 1757-1820.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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An account of the present state of Egypt. Containing; its situtation, extent and divisions; rivers, bays, harbours and capes; climate, diseases, air, soil and productions; chief towns, population, manners, customs, and a description of the various inhabitants ... Compile by John Remmey, with occasional notes. To which is added, an appendix, containing an authentic and impartial account of the naval action in the road of Aboukir ... The whole illustrated by a map of Egypt and part of Syria, from the latest and best authorities.
Remmey, John.Date: 1799- Books
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Abdollatiphi historiæ Ægypti compendium, arabice et latine. Partim ipse vertit, partim a Pocockio versum edendum curavit, notisque illustravit J. White, S.T.P. Eccles, Glocestriensis Praebendarius, Linguae Arab. In Academia Oxoniensi Professor Laudianus, Timuri Institutionum Politicarum e Persico editor, et S. S. Evangelicorum Versionis Syriacae Philoxenianae Interpres.
Àbd al-laṫ-if, 1162-1231.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]